Drink this water?? No way! Notice the murky algae and bio masses suspended in the water.
We look closely in the skin crevices of the hand holding water from the community well in this rural area two hours north of Mumba . What are those tiny transparent oblong wiggly things? Oh my Goodness! Those are worms, parasites, and lots of them! What else is suspended in these waters of the community wells and the river that the village people use for drinking water? Yes, dysentery, cholera, parasites, a host of illness by the cup!
We look at this woman washing clothes in the small hand dug pond. Picturesque eh? But wait! Is that a boy bathing in the same water? Is this the same water they use for drinking? Does everyone bath in this water? Yes! Do they have another source of water ? Well, no!
Look at the picture of the village landscape. How much water do you see? Right. No water, just hand dug wells and ponds open to surface contamination. And to make matters worse, when the monsoons come there is water everywhere- - inside the houses through leaky roofs, pouring dirty surface water down into the wells, open latrine areas adding toxic load to the water.Water is very friendly - - it embraces nearly everything.
Here's a statistic that should shake us a bit - - enough to pledge a small bit of our riches, - - a child dies every 20 seconds from water borne illness just in India alone. Hmmmm - - this is a reality so horrible that we either run from awareness of it or decide to do something. Let's help a little.
How can we help? Well, simple, you can donate enough for one or more of the simple, sturdy, low tech, no moving parts, concrete water filters that SNET delivers to families in these rural villages in India. These filters provide clean potable water for even large families, and require no extra expenses from the families. The filtering is done by graduated-sized levels of sand and a powerful bio-film medium that forms naturally and “eats” the “bad guys” in the water. The family need only wash the top layer of sand occasionally. No moving parts to wear out, no expensive (for them) parts or filters to buy. You have then established yourself as one of the loving ones who doesn’t ignore our common responsibility to help these people have a healthy future. Congratulations for not ignoring and repressing the ability to share with others. And, we will email you a certificate of GREAT LOVING KINDNESS to hang on your wall, your refrigerator, and forward to your friends so they can feel as good as you do.
Love matters. Love conquers poverty and disease. You are the best of the best because you care and share. Send this to your friends and your woman’s and men’s clubs. Facebook about this. The love that spreads through a group of people who donate to help others is pure bliss.
Stay tuned with SNET’S spreading distribution of effective water filters and enjoy your part in this happy story of health and happiness for the village peoples. Their life is tough in many ways, and also very beautiful and important. You are a part of it. We love your caring hearts.
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